Best 389 quotes in «classic quotes» category

You might hear some ugly talk about it at school, but do one thing for me if you will: you just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat.Try fighting with your head for a change . . .it's a good one, even if it does resist learning.

You know, Watson, I don't mind confessing to you that I have always had an idea that I would have made a highly efficient criminal. --Sherlock Holmes

You must come to Lockleigh again," said Miss Molyneux, very sweetly, to Isabel, ignoring this remark of Isabel's friend. Isabel looked into her quiet eyes a moment, and for that moment seemed to see in their grey depths the reflexion of everything she had rejected in rejecting Lord Warburton—the peace, the kindness, the honour, the possessions, a deep security and a great exclusion. She kissed Miss Molyneux and then she said: "I'm afraid I can never come again.

Your slave and enemy, D.Karamazov

A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.

A classic engineering mistake and one I've made is confusing what is hard and what is valuable.

A classic is a book that survives the circumstances that made it possible yet alone keeps those circumstances alive.

A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.

A classic liberal is more like a libertarian. I'm sorry. Classic liberal, actually, from the 1800s has a totally different meaning than a liberal who is [modern] classic.

A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.

A classic is a book that remains in print

A classic is like a hidden treasure. Its core is buried under so many layers of varnish that it can be reached only by patience and infiltration.

A cult classic is one that has been fully embraced by an alternative audience, not the popular audience.

A great song will be great forever - it's timeless and classic in that way.

Ah, you're the one who wrote the letter. So you can write then.

Ah! What avails the classic bent And what the cultured word, Against the undoctored incident That actually occurred? And what is Art whereto we press Through paint and prose and rhyme- When Nature in her nakedness Defeats us every time?

All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.

Alien is one of my favourite films. I'm a classic horror fan. It's a tough one for me, because I get scared quite easily.

All men are created equal.

All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark.

Am I no a bonny fighter?

America is a such a melting pot, I'm not sure if roast chicken is the classic comfort food for everybody.

And what exotic part of the world do you come from?

A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

Aren't most of you descended from pirates?

Are you running away from something?

A sceptic finds Dallas absurd. A cynic thinks the public doesn't

A TREAT. FASCINATING. Director Lipes is a classic cinéma vérité practitioner in the mold of Albert Maysles and Frederick Wiseman.

A wise man knows; learn from others, never get complacent and know where the classic old dangers come from.

Beyoncé and pathos are strangers. Amy Winehouse and pathos are flatmates, and you should see the kitchen.

Broadway is a definite symbol of New York. It's classic New York.

But labor of the hands, even when pursued to the verge of drudgery, is perhaps never the worst form of idleness. It has a constantand imperishable moral, and to the scholar it yields a classic result.

A stately pleasure-dome decree.

You may try your hardest and fail, but you have the choice weather or not to get back up again" -Anna Celeste Vega

But my everyday music is classic rock. It’s what I relate to the most and where my heart is.

Classical ballet will never die.

Classic Christmas cookies are really time-consuming. Instead, make a bar you can bake in a pan and just cut up, like a brownie or a blondie or a shortbread, which still has that Christmas vibe.

Classic Van Halen made people want to dance and f**k. Modern Van Halen makes you want to drink milk and drive foreign cars.

Classic nineteenth century European imperialists believed they were literally on a mission. I don't believe that the imperialists these days have that same sense of public service. They are simply pirates.

Classic is our daring, classic our cowardice. Classic is our cruelty, classic our charity.

Classic music will always come across better on the ice because skating has such a rich history, rooted in tradition.

Classic authors should be older than I am, and wiser, and on-top of all their deadlines.

Classic Rock radio gave us our longevity.

Dave Rocha is a mature and eminently musical improviser. His sumptuous tone and cafefully chosen notes embody real musical thought. His performance of 'Dear Old Stockholm' at Chez Hanny evoked favorable comparisons to Miles Davis' classic recording.

Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.

Deaf? If you're near there, no wonder you are deaf.

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

Don't knock finding nemo," Xavier teased, taking the DVD from my grasp. "It's a modern classic." "Is it seriously about fish?" "Yeah, but really cool fish.

Do people trip over you?

Do you still throw spears at each other?